“To Love Somebody”: An Iconic Bee Gees Song about Unrequited Love
The heart itself has its own reason the reason itself cannot understand – Blaise Pascal There's a lightA certain kind of lightThat never shone on meI want my life to…
Music
“Here Comes the Sun”
For glad spring has began,And to the ardent sunThe earth, long time so bleak,Turns a frost bitten cheek. – Celia Thaxter, American poet (1835-94) From Frank Sinatra to the Beatles,…
Meet Mr. Dylan
[The following is a close transcript of the 319th episode of the podcast titled RevolutionZ.] Perhaps you are aware there is a new movie out titled A Complete Unknown. It addresses…
Handel and the Slave Trade
This holiday season there will be many performances of George Frederick Handel’s oratorio Messiah. Audiences love to stand when it gets to the Hallelujah chorus and sing along. December performances…
A Pearl inside an Oyster: A Tribute to Maestro S D Burman
Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls…Give your hearts, but not each other’s keeping.…
Kumar Gandharva was an innovator, a rebel like T.M. Krishna
The Tata theatre of NCPA in Mumbai was packed to capacity on April 4 by music lovers providing a fitting finale to the birth centenary celebrations of Kumar Ganharva, the…
Are There Any Paranoids in the Stadium Tonight? Two Nights in Santiago With Roger Waters
No one does a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so too are the soundscape, the images, the giant sheep and pig, the lasers,…
Partly Truth and Partly Fiction – Totally Genius: Kris Kristofferson
“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity’s sun rise.” – William Blake, Eternity Great…
Back on the Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Wins Over Spirit
In March, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeal upheld an original jury finding that Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven did not infringe copyright in Spirit’s 1968 song Taurus. Michael…
Indian contributions to British Music
“In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.” -Bertolt Brecht These historic lines are prophetically relevant today as we…
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